Kentish Town Health Centre ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS

Kentish Town Health Centre ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS

Kentish Town Health Centre (KTHC) is a new health building in central London, housing a large GP practice and a wide range of health facilities. KTHC sets a new standard for the NHS. The partnership of a local design champion, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) architects, and Camden & Islington Community Solutions has delivered a building where design allows services to be integrated as never before.

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Kentish Town Health Centre provides an uplifting, inspiring environment of high quality for users and staff delivered through the LIFT procurement process, setting a new standard for modern health care provision. The project champion, Dr Roy Macgregor, initiated an RIBA competition for a building won by AHMM. Dr Macgregor s vision was to create a wonderful building where not only medicine but health and art came together for the community. Ideas of transparency and connectivity were embraced by the architects and the whole team worked collaboratively to create a building that expresses the new, holistic approach to healthcare. KTHC creates a bold civic presence that responds to its environment. Referencing the brick and stucco, and architectural repetition, scale and forms of the surrounding housing, the ground floor is articulated as a brick plinth, with the rendered forms of the upper floors floating above. Cantilevered rooms at first and second floor provide substantially larger floorplates at these levels whilst allowing a small ground floor footprint and reducing the overall mass of the building.

Jenga The building houses a large GP practice, paediatric, dental and children s services, breast screening and diagnostic imaging, plus supporting office space, staff facilities, library and meeting rooms. Inspired by the game Jenga, the very complex inter-relationships of these uses were rigorously adjusted to create a very flexible internal space where staff and users feel connected and part of a whole. Fully accessible ground and first floors accommodate all public and clinical space, whilst the second floor is a private space for use by staff with teaching rooms. Some areas and rooms on the ground floor have been designed to be used out of clinic hours so have their own, discrete routes of access and security. Jenga Jenga concept applied to the Building Concept sketch of waiting room off Sketch diagram of Street Volumes within Street Massing within context Visual connections through Street

External Spaces With the landscaping, as many existing trees as possible were retained including a number of London Planes, an Ash, a Lime and a Damson. The new landscape elements were designed to relate to the residential scale of gardens and pockets of green in surrounding streets. A series of small gardens and terraces are carved into the built form. These offer space to hold a discrete conversation, make a phone call or have a breath of fresh air and are open to both staff and patients.

Spacial Analysis Original James Wigg Practice Spacial Concept As Built External Space GP Consult GP Office Waiting Baby Clinic

B Document Store 5 Consultation Rooms 2 Examination Rooms 3 IT Office 4 Out Patients & Paediatrics Suite Treatment Room 6 Diagnostic Imaging Suite 7 Podiatry 8 Dentist Surgery 9 Sterilisation 0 X-Ray 4 4 4 4 5 6 3 2 7 7 8 0 7 8 9 8 G Consultant Rooms 2 Café 3 Toilets 4 Examination Rooms 5 Office Space 6 Treatment Rooms 7 Gym/Health Promotion 8 Reception 9 GP Hotdesk 0 Admin hub Immunisation Room 2 Library 2 Meeting Rooms 3 Teaching Consultation Rooms 4 Observation Room 5 District Nursing/ Health Visiting/ Open Plan Office Space 6 District Nurse Office 7 Social Services Manager 8 Duty Team Room 9 Child Protection Officer 0 Reach Office CNN Office 2 Staff Room 5 5 9 4 3 0 3 6 6 4 6 3 3 8 3 3 3 2 2 4 2 3 2 5 6 7 9 8 7 7 5 2 3 2 0 0

The Street Internally, the building has been designed around the concept of a street a generous public/private space that welcomes users and leads them to the reception at the heart of the building from where all services are accessed. Key dates August 2002 September 2005 September 2005 March 2007 May 2007 December 2008 January 2009 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris wins RIBA led competition Planning granted subject to conditions James Wigg Practice relocates to temporary premises Financial Close Site possession & demolition begins Construction on-site begins Practical Completion James Wigg Practice opens to patients

At ground level a more formal, public garden has been designed which connects directly to the main waiting room where the café will be located. There is also a large rooftop terrace accessed from the staff room which is large enough for social occasions in the summer.

Comments from the staff at Kentish Town Health Centre Feel proud to be working in a building which is hard to distinguish between an art gallery and a health centre.

Comments from the staff at Kentish Town Health Centre Patients appear to be more relaxed in the waiting room. Our level of aggression at the front desk is remarkably reduced following moving to these premises.

Comments from the staff at Kentish Town Health Centre It s great to be able to step out onto the outside terraces to get a breath of fresh air. The connection between the outside and the inside of the building is fun because of the closeness of the trees to the upper windows and the greenery around the ground floor.

Project Team Developer Tenant Sub-Tenant Main Contractor Architect Structural Engineer Services Engineer Graphic Designer CICS (Camden Islington Community Solutions) Camden Primary Care Trust, NHS James Wigg Practice (GP) Morgan Ashurst Plc (formerly Bluestone Plc) Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Elliott Wood Partnerships Peter Deer Associates Studio Myerscough CDM Coordinator Landscape Architect Healthcare Consultant Procurement Route Approved Inspector Acoustic Consultant Fire Consultant Planning Consultant Managing CDM Ltd Jinny Blom Landscape Sonnemann Toon Architects LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) Guy Shattock Associates Ltd Adnitt Acoustics ARUP Fire DP9